Moloch - 2023 ARCADIA at RIT

Question

In Fritz Lang’s Metropolis, Freder hallucinates a machine overheating as slaves march into the mouth of this deity. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this Canaanite fire god whose idols were built in and around a massive furnace. Leviticus denounces child sacrifice to this god at the Tophet.

ANSWER: Moloch [or Molech]

[10h] Greco-Roman sources claim Carthaginian child sacrifice was instead to this deity who they identified with Cronus. This chief god of Carthage and partner of Tanit had a name shared by Semitic gods identified in Christian eschatology as Beezelbub.

ANSWER: Ba’al Hammon [or Baʿal Karnaim; prompt on Ba’al]

[10e] Greek depictions of metallic Moloch idols with the head of this animal may have been inspired by a “brazen” torture device shaped like one of these animals. The minotaur is half-human half-this animal.

ANSWER: bull [accept the brazen bull; prompt on cows]

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Summary


2023 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	Premiere	Y	2	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Carleton University	Premiere	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Claremont Colleges	Premiere	Y	1	30.00	100%	100%	100%
2023 ARCADIA at Indiana	Premiere	Y	5	14.00	100%	20%	20%
2023 ARCADIA at RIT	Premiere	Y	2	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at WUSTL	Premiere	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Duke	Emory, Duke, Yale	N	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Emory	Emory, Duke, Yale	N	4	15.00	100%	50%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Imperial	Imperial	N	5	20.00	100%	80%	20%
2023 ARCADIA at Maryland	Maryland, Online	N	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA at Ohio State	Ohio State, Texas	N	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
2023 ARCADIA Online	Maryland, Online	N	3	20.00	100%	67%	33%
2023 ARCADIA at Texas	Ohio State, Texas	N	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


RIT	Cornell MATLAB	0	0	10	10
Cornell R	Syracuse+Rochester	0	0	10	10